Israel has been linked to a complex worm currently attacking computers in Iran, which experts claim may have been designed to target the country's nuclear facilities. The Stuxnet worm, supposedly ...

The discovery was made by IT repairmen who found the 5in worm lodged inside the computer. The creature had crawled into his £360 old laptop through an air vent and wrapped itself around the internal ...

A new version of the Mydoom computer worm is spreading and is slowing the performance of Google and other Internet search engines. The SANS Internet Storm Centre in the US said the mass-mailing worm ...

When Mark Taylor saw an error message flash up on his computer screen he feared it could be a dreaded worm virus. His laptop advised him to switch off the machine ...

A highly-sophisticated computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has infected computers at Iran's first nuclear station. 26 September 2010 • 6:25pm Bushehr will be internationally ...

Internet security experts found a new version of the Mydoom computer worm, dubbed the Mydoom.B, that evades detection measures for the original worm, Finland's F-Secure said. People try computers at ...

Coastguard stations around the UK have been severely disrupted after a computer worm brought down IT systems. The Sasser worm has hit all 19 coastguard stations and the service's main headquarters, ...

When we say that a PC or a phone has got a virus, is it the same as saying that it has a worm? No. Both are forms of malware but are very different from each other. Malware is a malicious software ...

They say it opens a new frontier in computer attacks, and have called it the first "cyber weapon". Called Stuxnet, it is believed the computer code was designed to target Iranian nuclear power ...

As experts predicted, the Windows hole proved a tempting target for rogue programmers, who quickly developed more effective variants on a worm that surfaced over the weekend and by yesterday had ...

An unprecendented international alert was issued yesterday over a fast-spreading, destructive computer "worm" that is set to infect hundreds of thousands of systems around the world tonight – and has ...

Prime Minister Tony Blair and his official website are the target of a new internet worm. The Quaters worm spreads via e-mail and by internet chat systems and only affects Windows computers. It ...